Quotes from Gunter Pauli

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

Problems are opportunities.

Few coffee drinkers realise how little of the biomass generated at a coffee farm is consumed,or the wastefulness associated with their consumption habits.